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Publicación: The Cult of Nazi Martyrs

La editorial Routledge acaba de publicar la edición de tapa blanda (paperback) de la obra The Cult of Nazi Martyrs, cuyo autor es Jesús Casquete, miembro de AMAPOL. La obra original, publicada en 2020 bajo el título El culto a los mártires nazis (Alianza), ya fue objeto de una nueva edición en inglés con la misma editorial Routledge en 2023, con una amplia labor de reelaboración. Reproducimos a continuación el resumen e índice de la obra.

Resumen (inglés)

To disentangle the National Socialists’ path to power in Germany, one must attend to the discursive strategies and liturgical practices employed by its emocrats, or manipulators of emotions. The apotheosis of martyrdom in the National Socialist propaganda template is far from being a marginal element in the movement’s history. Owing to its mobilising and unifying potential in constructing a community of memory, the glorification of Nazi martyrdom constituted a fundamental pillar of the movement’s communicative and propaganda strategy, stressed to the point of paroxysm.

The propaganda and lies that ground the construction of the martyr as a prefiguration of the “new man” are the core ideas that form the backbone of this book. The Nazis’ politics of death was a carefully managed element of National Socialism from its very inception. The martyrs, and their blood sacrificed on the altar of the fatherland, were an invaluable propaganda weapon.

There were three pillars of the Nazi martyrdom frame: sublimation of death, posthumous sugar-coating and “tamed” death. Once the Nazi movement had taken control of German state apparatus, the mechanisms for disseminating the exemplary martyr in society may have changed, but not the specifics of the propaganda strategy itself.

Índice

1. Totalitarianism and the new man 2. “A healthy fist and love for the fatherland in the heart”: Nazi stormtroopers 3. The Nazi Martyrdom Frame 4. Conclusion


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Pierre M. Delpu (18 décembre 2024). Publicación: The Cult of Nazi Martyrs. Aspects du martyre politique. Consulté le 12 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12yaz


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